Can Even a Mob Highschooler Like Me be a Normie if I Become an Adventurer? Chapter 31 Discussion

I've read a ton of modern day dungeon crawling novels in the past year but this is by far the best. The MC is your typical japanese MC but rather than being a timid and passive this guys has a clear goal in mind. From the begging he really wanted to be a normie and get together with the girl he likes so what did he do? He work his ass to to earn 1 million yen to purchase his cards. When he did get his cards despite them having troublesome personality quirks he didn't give up and thoroughly train them and treat them as equals. I also like how he overcomes his weakness by using clever strategies using the unique personality and skill of his cards. But he's not a godlike being with zero weaknesses Spoiler

in the raws he fell to a trap and got 3 of his main cards killed, in the later volumes he got several people killed when he tried to use a drop item he keep on using which is actually a set up by the villain

[collapse] He is also thrown into situations where people push him around to do their bidding and take responsibility as he ranks up as an adventurer. Now that I think about it and Adventurer in this series are more akin to government sanctioned military personnel as they are often called upon during emergencies regarding dungeons.

One of my favorite things about this series are the cards and the enemies. Lets talk about the cards first, the cards are monsters that came from the dungeon that turns into a card after being defeated but not all defeated monsters turns into a card. These cards all have different personalities and gender and these affect their skills they also have race specific skills that are consistent to all of the cards of the same species and depending on which country you caught your Monster their strength and skill will also vary. Example of this are the Cú Sith if you caught it from his country of origin it will have unique skills are a lot stronger than let's say Cú Sith caught in Japan there is also regional variants and name difference in different countries example would be a in Japan Kisshouten would be a Lakshimi if you caught it in a dungeon in India. And depending on how you raise and treat your card these Unique skills will manifest but a skill could also manifest between to monsters in your team when they develop a bond and interact with one another. This gives everyone in this world the same fighting potential but depending on the cards personality and how you raise them is where you can differentiate skilled adventurers from amateurs. This reminds me of Pokémon anime so much Utamaro is basically Ash Ketchum in terms of fighting style and how they raise their mons but instead of team rocket as his enemies and becoming a Pokémon Master as his goal Utamaro has Taxes, Society, Cult and the Responsibility as a pro adventurer as his enemies while his goal is to get a girlfriend with humongous tits.

Now let's talk about the enemies, as of now there is no clear main bad guy of the story the main goal of the different countries is to destroy all of the dungeons to prevent the Angolmois a phenomenon in which the dungeons all over the world starts to overflow and monsters will flood the world. And during the Angolmois the attack would be lead by a Unique Monster. A Unique Monster are monsters based on legends and stories what's cool is that these monsters powers and skills is derived from their legends. A Unique Monster can also appear in the dungeon but depending on what the rank of the dungeon they appear in their power is adjusted but during the Angolmois these restrictions are lifted and they release their full power. When defeated Unique Monsters drop rare items that are really useful.

There are currently 6 volumes available on Kakuyomu and the 7th volume is about to be finished my only complain about this series is they didn't expand upon the competitive sport aspect of the adventurer fights like Pokémon do. Maybe because the MC is more of a PvE guy and values his cards too much. Also there are weird sh*t like Spoiler

One of the main characters got gender bent and would probably be one of his love interest so yeah

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Overall I like the series hope the TL keep it up it's hard reading japanese.